After the fireworks of last week, we get back to that hard fact about competitive solving: speed is irrelevant if you make mistakes, so accurate solving at say 10 minutes a puzzle will beat just … Read more “Unofficial Times cryptic RTC contest No. 6 – results”
Day: 26th August 2007
ST 4238 (Sun 19 Aug) – Chicken pox
Solving time: 20:44, one mistake (9ac) A disaster, mostly because 5dn (“An improvement on medical attention” (10)) took me nearly 15 minutes but also because having finally got there, and correctly guessed 24dn after some … Read more “ST 4238 (Sun 19 Aug) – Chicken pox”
Mephisto 2451 – Chris Feetenby – an extra H?
Straightforward enough, although I can’t quite see the wordplay in 1ac, and 11ac doesn’t appear in Chambers. Some excellent clues, especially 16ac, 27ac and 13dn. My only criticism, and it is very minor, is that … Read more “Mephisto 2451 – Chris Feetenby – an extra H?”